Windows 7 Guide For Wireless Networking

Windows 7 is ready for all types of private networking at present in use, everything from the kind of Domain, Work-Group, peer to peer networks you set in the home (referred to as a homegroup) to small-scale local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs) in business.

Microsoft introduces Windows 7 update wireless networking, help you to configure and manage wireless connections with a various range of wireless devices that search and connect to wireless networks also known as Wi-FI.

With Windows 7 its easier to create a Wi-Fi network through Connection wizard. Users can easily connect to an available wireless network with a security key or manually connect to one not recognized. As you go through the manual process, you'll specify a network name, called the(Service Set Identifier).

Windows 7 simplifies the way you transfer your wireless setting from one system to another. It was the major irritation till date because to remember the security key is not an easy task and any mistake can puzzle you for hours or so.

you can easily take a back up of wireless networks settings on a USB drive and import it to another machine irrespective of on what OS other machine is working.

Windows Connect Now is one of the technology designed for simpler wireless device configuration. Now with Windows Connect its easier to create a wireless network at home or office. When you connect to a compatible router, Windows will walk you through all the necessary setup steps including naming your network and turning on the router's security features. Now you don't need to remember network settings when you connect a new computer. All you have to do is press the Wi-FI Protected Setup button on your router and it will automatically send the network settings to your computer. With Windows connect Now, users running Windows 7 can create network configuration settings and transmit them to the access point. Windows Connect Now (WCN) allows mobile and embedded devices, 802.11 access points (APs), and computers to securely connect, and exchange settings with each other. It allows you to easily set up a secure wireless network by using a USB cable or USB flash drive. Windows Connect Now uses one of the methods for easier configuration.

WCN-NET is Microsoft's standard for easier Wi-Fi configuration. It provides for configuration of devices using Ethernet in Wireless networks. In Windows it can search an unconfigured router, access point, base station or a device such as a Media Center Extender by using Upnp, authenticate with the device by using a personal identification number, provide wireless settings that are based on user selection and configure a wireless network over a wired Ethernet connection.

WCN-UFD writes configuration files to a USB drive for more secure wireless networks. It uses an API and an XML format to write configuration files.

WCN-MTP includes a Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) extension that enables an MTP initiator to provide an MTP responder with configuration parameters for joining a wireless network and supports more secure configuration of MTP-capable devices on wireless networks.

IE8 Blocked over 1 Billion Malware Attacks

With the help of the SmartScreen filter, IE 8, Microsoft’s standard Internet browser prevented 1 billion malware attacks or downloads. In a Microsoft Windows Blog on Friday, Microsoft noted that the growing number of socially engineering attacks like malware are posing a greater threat on the Internet. They are one of the most common risks to people’s online safety. Having introduced malware protection in Internet Explorer 8 as part of the SmartScreen Filter it has been a very successful ad on to a commonly used product.

How it Works

First the SmartScreen Filter looks and evaluates the URLs coming into the website, it follows up with an inspection of the associated servers of origin. When the software spots a server as containing malicious content, SmartScreen displays a warning, saying that it is unsafe to browse to that respective site. The user is then given the opportunity to continue forward to the page or return back to their home page without downloading any content.

Here are some quick facts of interest about the Internet Explorer and malware as IE 8 hit this 1 billion blocks milestone:

* In August 2009 and March 10, the NSS Labs have recognized the Internet Explorer 8 SmartScreen Filter was a leader in protection against Socially Engineered Malware. The reports also compared Internet Explorer 8 to Firefox and Chrome, and others browsers.

* The SmartScreen malware filter blocking rates continue to improve because there is a continued effort to improve the SmartScreen service program at the back-end. In comparison, an August 2009 report showed that the filter blocked about 70 million attempts to download malware. This was about 18 million blocks per month. But at the time,Net Applications reported that only 15% of the Internet population used IE 8. Now speed forward. In the last two months, IE8 blocked about 100 million attempts to download malware. Furthermore, last month, according to Net Applications, the number of users of IE 8 was almost 26% of the Internet population. this translates to about more than 1.7 times more users working with Internet Explorer 8 than last August 2009; however, the blocking rare is 5 times more malware month on month.

Source:http://www.windows7news.com/